Mentaw property

A mentaw property or a mind property is a property of a/de mind. The term is mostwy used in phiwosophy of mind, widout prejudice as to de ontowogicaw status of mentaw properties. Exampwes might incwude generaw properties, such as being abwe to dink, understand or remember, or more specific actions such as "having a dought about Paris". The term is often used in de context of de mind body probwem. For (non ewiminative) physicawists, mentaw properties are a kind of high wevew property which can be understood in terms of fine-grained neuraw activity. Property duawists, on de oder hand, cwaim dat no such reductive expwanation is possibwe. Ewiminativists may reject de existence of mentaw properties, or at weast of dose corresponding to fowk psychowogicaw categories such as dought and memory. Some phiwosophers seek to find a unifying characteristic for de generawwy accepted mentaw properties: a famous exampwe is Franz Brentano's cwaim dat aww mentaw properties are characterised by intentionawity or "aboutness".